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Second, the natural state model purports to capture the idea that human nature describes only “normal” humans. Third, “field guide” conceptions of human nature aim to capture and explain typical and characteristic human traits. Field guide conceptions are empirically and methodologically viable.
Feb 4, 2012 · The only biologically respectable notion of human nature is an extremely permissive one that names the reliable dispositions of the human species as a whole. This conception offers no ethical guidance in debates over enhancement, and indeed it has the result that alterations to human nature have been commonplace in the history of our species. Aristotelian conceptions of species natures, which ...
- Tim Lewens
- tml1000@cam.ac.uk
- 2012
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Mar 15, 2021 · Human Nature. First published Mon Mar 15, 2021. Talk of human nature is a common feature of moral and political discourse among people on the street and among philosophers, political scientists and sociologists. This is largely due to the widespread assumption that true descriptive or explanatory claims making use of the concept of human nature ...
Jun 10, 2016 · Abstract. The dominant theory of human nature in the Western tradition is that the human being is a peculiar sort of being, a rational animal. That is, the human is both animal and rational, pulled in two different directions at once.
- Whitley R. P. Kaufman
- 2016
Oct 11, 2018 · Abstract. Modern theorists draw parallels between interhuman and human-nature relationships. This is evident in their use of relational terms like bonds, love, care, kinship and others.
- Neil H. Kessler
- 2019
fl fl. man nature (embodying an ideological, ethical, political, or other value-. “ ”. based perspective) may easily be presented in the guise of a secure descrip-tive fact about human nature, presumably fully justi ed by science. In. “ ” fi. some cases, the ambiguity allows a conscious bait and switch.
Jan 22, 2005 · Specifically, he aims to examine the “unnatural” teleological role of the demiurge in relation to the “natural” teleology central to Aristotle’s Physics. Johansen construes the argument for the existence of the demiurge as an inference to the best explanation of the order and beauty of the kosmos.
